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By Erinn Lynch for Santa Barbara Education Foundation Santa Barbara Education Foundation hosted its annual Teachers Grant Award Ceremony on Jan. 8, awarding 56 teachers with $84,982 in grants. Funds will be applied to support [...]

Dos Pueblos teacher Bethany Bodenhamer has been appointed as the interim Dean of Student Engagement at Dos Pueblos High School. Her first day in the role is January 21, 2020. Bodenhamer joined Santa Barbara Unified [...]

Franklin Elementary School students and staff are elated with the news that their campus has earned the prestigious California Distinguished School recognition. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond made the announcement on Wednesday that [...]

A group of local teachers, administrators and community members are designing a Dual Language Immersion program that will lead to students becoming bilingual and biliterate in both Spanish and English. The program is planned for [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Unified School District eNews What does it take to be successful in college? Show up with a notebook and pen. Learn to say “no.” Use the 5-minute rule to fight procrastination. Write down [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Independent  “I really love being able to work with high school kids because they can really achieve at a pretty high level when they put their mind to it,” said Dos Pueblos [...]

New student enrollment is now open for those enrolling for the first time in Santa Barbara Unified School District and those interested in a school transfer. Looking to transfer to a campus that is not [...]

High school students from across the district recently gathered with school board members, principals, and school staff to talk about sustainability and share ideas on how to inspire real change on their campuses. From reducing [...]

[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" overlay_strength="0.3" shape_divider_position="bottom"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_position="all" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_link_target="_self" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text]Speaking to a packed house at the New Vic Theater, Santa Barbara Unified School District [...]

[vc_row type="in_container" full_screen_row_position="middle" scene_position="center" text_color="dark" text_align="left" overlay_strength="0.3" shape_divider_position="bottom"][vc_column column_padding="no-extra-padding" column_padding_position="all" background_color_opacity="1" background_hover_color_opacity="1" column_link_target="_self" column_shadow="none" column_border_radius="none" width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" tablet_text_alignment="default" phone_text_alignment="default" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text]About 1,500 district eighth-graders explored what the future has in store at the district's annual High [...]

School Board Member Laura Capps’ efforts to help Santa Barbara schools reduce their carbon footprint have made her a finalist in the 2019 New Ideas Challenge – a competition among rising and innovative state and [...]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Jeffrey Milem to its Board of Directors. Milem is the Dean and a Professor at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to this position, [...]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Larry Harter to its Board of Directors. Harter serves as President of Pueblo Radiology and California Managed Imaging.  He also serves on the executive committee of the California Radiology [...]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Jon Clark to its Board of Directors. Through his position as President of the James S. Bower Foundation, Clark has shown his dedication to supporting community organizations that promote [...]

Utilizing the CrisisGo emergency communication platform, Santa Barbara Unified School District campuses participated in the Great ShakeOut drill on Thursday, joining millions of people across the world in practicing earthquake safety protocols. Santa Barbara schools [...]